I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don’t wanna see him live another day, why is that?
I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don’t wanna see him live another day, why is that?
he had a show on RT… that was literally it…
Yes, literally a show on Russian state TV. He got a paycheck from the Russian government. I mean, is it that hard to grasp that this little fact makes the “he’s a russian asset” accusations at least understandable? And I am not saying he is one. I am not that informed about him and Wikileaks to have a strong opinion.
Yeah, I think it’s too much to say he was a Russian asset because he was hired to interview people for RT. He may just as well just have been used by the network to score some quick views by having him show up. And it’s not like he could make his talk show in many western countries where he would be extradited the moment he crossed the border.
RT is not the russian government…
so everything else you have to say is pointless propaganda
claiming he’s definitely a russian asset because he had a tv show is like saying everyone that’s been on ABC is an american asset…
it’s worse than just stupid
-Alexander Lebedev
Even Russian Oligarchs are laughing at how obvious it is.
uh huh… so after he’s already arrested and detained inside the ecuadorian embassy, he takes an opportunity to have a webcam interview show distributed on rt…
after he’s already internationally famous and has a shitload of money… he’s “paid employee of rt” and that discredits everything he did for years before and after that…
you sound a lot like a paid government employee
(p.s. rt was a lot freer then and had some pretty good journalism about topics other than russia… but go ahead and keep repeating yourself like an idiot)
RT is literally state controlled. It has no independence. It operates in literally the same offices as RIA Novosti.
You are out of your mind if you are trying to claim they are anything other than state TV by any meaningful definition.
they were state funded but not controlled back then, they’ve been slowly adding on censorship laws… not every human in russia is this super evil, red-scare, diabolical agent plotting against your freedom…
they were, very recently, much freer and more democratic… putin has slowly been turning it back into a dictatorship
see also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union
How much of their funding came from the state? 100%? That’s 100% control.
cool how they played all those advertisements for freeee…
cool how NBC is 100% controlled by their advertisers…
cool how funding =/= control
i’d say %60 advertisers, %39 shareholders, %1 workers and journalistic integrity
You’re too used to people making attacks. That’s not what I was trying to do. I was asking questions. I don’t know how much of RTs funding comes from the state, and I don’t even know if they run commercials.
I don’t know how RT is funded, and I’ve never watched it.
is not innocently asking questions.
but it does not matter.
even if RT was 100% a puppet and they employed assange to interview people and speak truth, that doesn’t make him a russian asset
it was one of the least significant things he ever did in his long career… and he had some really good interviews…
You’re full of it. From the time they were founded, they operated in the same building as RIA Novosti. RT didn’t exist until AFTER the various independent journalists and their associations were ALREADY being rounded up and cast out of Russian society.
They are now and have always been state-controlled. Stop apologizing for dictatorships.
oh look, another stupid troll
RT was founded in 2005.
By 2008 they were parroting clearly-bullshit Russian talking points about Georgia in the 2008 war.
World Tomorrow aired in 2012.
You. Are. Full. Of. It.
You are replying to every opinion in here that isn’t gargling his pasty white balls. You sound like a cultist tbh.
He gained a Russian bias in terms of what documents he published.
“A show on a dictatorial regime’s state TV” doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence either.
RT had a lot of independance, and putin’s dictatorial control hadn’t completely solidified yet.
if you couldn’t imagine them taking an opportunity to be broadcast all across the globe, then you’re very miopic.
it was an assange interview show… he interviewed people… it was a good show
aaaand, you’re repeating the same rumor over and over.
no, they didn’t show any bias in what they published. straight up lies
Russian press freedom has been under attack since way before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. RT 10 years ago is not RT today, but it’s still not exactly an independent news source.
His willingness to publish documents incriminating some governments (famously the American government, of course) and not others shows a bias.
I’m not saying he’s an agent working for the Kremlin, but I do think he shows bias. And honestly, I can’t really blame him after the way the West treated him.
you definitely get it with RT having changed in the last decade…
but on Bill Maher he said A: they only publish things they can verify, and B: russia would not be shy about just assassinating him, so unfortunately they’re very hesitant to piss them off.
i need to find that clip and just reply with that…